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Saturday, June 4, 2016

Classics Club Spin- June 2016

It's time for another Classics Club spin!
Here's the rules. :)

Go to your blog.

Pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club List.

Try to challenge yourself: list five you are dreading/hesitant to read, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favorite author, rereads, ancients — whatever you choose.)

Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog by next Monday.

Monday morning, we’ll announce a number from 1-20. Go to the list of twenty books you posted, and select the book that corresponds to the number we announce.

The challenge is to read that book by August 1, even if it’s an icky one you dread reading! (No fair not listing any scary ones!)

It's always fun to participate in the Classic Club's spins. Sometimes it gets me to read one of the books I was putting off.

Can't Wait to Read!

1) The 39 Steps by John Buchan2) Waverley by Sir Walter Scott3) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky4) The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley5) The Once and Future King by T.H. White

Ah Don Quixote. I feel guilty for not reading that (can I really call myself well-acquainted with the world of chivalry and knighthood without doing so?) but I think I'm in need for some lighter reading after the somewhat-challenging books I've been reading of late. Good luck to you with Don Quixote though; let me know how you like it and/or if you recommend it!

I'm into the first part of the Purgatorio of The Divine Comedy. Slow reading but not unhelpful necessarily. The trick is to find a good translation and good annotations. I've heard the translation by Anthony Esolen is very good but I've never been able to lay hold of a copy of it.

Hope you get one of your 'can't wait' reads. The 39 steps is good, and although it's ages and ages since I read The Once and Future King (when I was a teenager) I loved it. I still have a teddy bear called after one of the characters in it... ;)

I am a young Christian woman seeking to do the will of God in all I say do and think. I love reading, crocheting, Doctor Who and drinking tea. Currently, I work as a nurse in a hospital. I'm recently married and loving it!